Word: ramrodding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drove to Union Station in an open car to welcome Canada's ramrod-straight Governor General, the Earl of Athlone...
Reading by Ear. Like his father, ramrod-straight, close-cropped Joseph Pulitzer Jr. has eyes so weak that he can read only headlines. Two secretaries spend five to seven hours a day reading to him; his wife takes over in the evening. He conscientiously keeps up with plays and books which have a chance for Pulitzer Prizes. Sixteen weeks of the year he spends in a rented cottage at Bar Harbor, Me., duck-hunting in the Ozarks or fishing in Quebec -but keeps in telephone contact with his editors, and peppers them with yellow memos. Blind...
This week a tough-minded U.S. diplomat was hard at work in one of World War II's toughest diplomatic posts. Major General Patrick Jay Hurley, ramrod-backed and handsome at 61, had already been acting as U.S. Ambassador to China for four weeks. Now Franklin Roosevelt sent his appointment to the Senate...
...biggest vacancy-Ambassador to China-the President had made a choice, but would not announce it until China approved. The dopesters' best guess: ramrod-straight Major General Patrick J. Hurley, now in Chungking on a special Presidential mission...
...hard man to impress. In 1929 (when the Army was at one of its lowest points in men and money) George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel, the assistant commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Two majors impressed him there: plain, lanky Omar Bradley and ramrod-straight, studious Courtney Hodges. The three...